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| Terror Close to Home | |
| 2003-10-01 | |
| The article is too long to post, so as they say, read it all. It looks like the Marxist pygmies and the Islamofascist pygmies are morphing together in the hope of becoming big enough to take on the US Venezuela is providing support—including identity documents—that could prove useful to radical Islamic groups, say U.S. officials. U.S. News has learned that Chavez’s government has issued thousands of cedulas, the equivalent of Social Security cards, to people from places such as Cuba, Colombia, and Middle Eastern nations that play host to foreign terrorist organizations. An American official with firsthand knowledge of the ID scheme has seen computer spreadsheets with names of people organized by nationality. "The list easily totaled several thousand," the official says. "Colombians were the largest group; there were more than a thousand of them. It also included many from Middle Eastern `countries of interest’ like Syria, Egypt, Pakistan, Lebanon." The official adds: "It was shocking to see how extensive the list was." U.S. officials believe that the Venezuelan government is issuing the documents to people who should not be getting them and that some of these cedulas were subsequently used to obtain Venezuelan passports and even American visas, which could allow the holder to elude immigration checks and enter the United States. U.S. officials say that the cedulas are also being used by Colombian subversives and by some Venezuelan officials to travel surreptitiously.
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| Posted by:tipper. |
| #9 Why didn't we support the coupsters, when they had Chavez out? The 'New Tone' strikes again. Bush has bent so far over backwards, that he's looking forward again. |
| Posted by: Jabba the Nutt 2003-10-1 11:12:12 PM |
| #8 Earlier this year IIRC the CSM had an article about some interesting stuff going on down there. Like all these buyers of oil who didn't have a clue but had cash. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-10-1 6:13:04 PM |
| #7 Spec Ops would be perfect to eliminate a base just over the Columbian border as an example. |
| Posted by: Superhose 2003-10-1 4:45:49 PM |
| #6 Carlos the Jackel was from here. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2003-10-1 2:20:02 PM |
| #5 You're asking for trouble coming out the ass, Chafe-ezz |
| Posted by: Katz 2003-10-1 1:38:06 PM |
| #4 In line with the Bush Doctrine regarding terrorist and those who support them, I hope that there are "boots on the ground". Think any Saudi cash is being spread around? |
| Posted by: Lucky 2003-10-1 1:09:39 PM |
| #3 Hmmm, if Arnold becomes gov, could he use national security to overturn or put on a recall ballot the matricular cards? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-10-1 1:07:58 PM |
| #2 U.S. News has learned that Chavez’s government has issued thousands of cedulas, the equivalent of Social Security cards, to people from places such as Cuba, Colombia, and Middle Eastern nations that play host to foreign terrorist organizations. What about those "Matricula Consular" cards? Same inherent flaw: it's a foreign government that is giving them out, and thinking that they have the U.S.' best interests in mind when issuing them would be terribly naive, to say the least. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-10-1 12:33:04 PM |
| #1 Keep it up, Hugo. Sign your own death warrant. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-10-1 12:07:10 PM |